![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a set because the film tells two stories: one of young Takeshi Kaneshiro falling for ageless Brigitte Lin, the other pairing Hong Kong cop Tony Leung Chiu-wai with the elfin beauty Faye Wong. Wong might have gone higher with the Eastern Western Ashes of Time, and deeper with that aching epic 2046, but we’ll choose the more lighthearted Chungking Express as an admirable starter set. It is atmosphere used to create the most fleeting or lasting emotion, a mix of longing gazes, swirling cigarette smoke, double-printed slo-mo images and the Colony’s most gorgeous actors. The epitome and apotheosis of art-house romance in the 90s, Wong Kar-wai developed a style like no other director -though, as his renown grew beyond China, dozens tried. Cast: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai Get This Movie
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